this is my issue with the world in general... for some reason, some people view the idiot who thinks "hey, i'm going to make a dumb offensive movie" is worse than the terrorist that thinks, "hey, i'm going to kill people with a rocket launcher!"

You guys are missing my point. By respect, I meant respect their religion and understand that they have their own set of rules and their culture. I may not agree with it, but that's not the point here. Just like I do not like seeing fun made of Christianity in certain ways - even though I'm not very religious myself - I would never be so critical and dumb-minded about Islam. I am not defending what happened. I am saying that this was inevitable after news of such a movie came out and that the guy should be held responsible in some way.

And to say that there aren't Christian counterparts to those guilty of actual murder is ignorant. Look no further than members of our own military who preached a religious war in Iraq on par with the Crusades. There have been many articles in the past on this. Rifle scopes with Bible verses or daily briefings that George Bush would receive just the same, but mostly the high-ranking officers brainwashing our soldiers into what to them was war of religion. They eventually decided to cut down on that - under Obama, I believe - but let's not pretend it didn't happen.

Let's be fair here. There are religious nuts on both sides of the world so to single out Muslims is stupid. It was an equivalent of angering a rabid dog and then acting surprised that it bit you anyway - you gotta be smarter than that.

On a related topic, what is saddening to me is that a guy like Romney would use a tragedy where 4 Americans were killed for his political gain and purpose. Glad it blew up in his face.

Sarcastic wrote:I wonder what that guy can be charged with. I would seriously shift a lot of blame on him because it seemed like it was a personal vendetta on his part and what resulted was the death of 4 people. Even more so in his case, since he must have known what can possibly happen. I am not one of those people who say that, "oh, we can insult Islam and if they react harshly then they're too sensitive and uneducated". I think that may be the case either way, but you still have to respect their devotion and be understanding of politics in all of this.

No,I certainly don't. And respect is the last thing in the world that they deserve.Their politics are perfectly clear. The Egyptian president has called for the release of the blind terrorist mullh and he also spews the line that the U.S. government performed the 9/11 attacks. The blind sheik's brother and and an AQ top guy's brother were ring leader's of the embassy attack. The Egyptian security forces left their posts when the wall's were breached. This was completely government sanctioned if not sponsored.http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09 ... t-is-ally/This is one time Obama was right. Now they're walking back another statement. All aid should immediately cease to that country on a permanent basis.

Geezer. All that tells me is that we should be out of Middle East. Yes, some Muslims hate us. Maybe we shouldn't have turned their whole region upside down.

I thought there is 2 companies of marines at every embassy.... How the **** does this happen?

Your telling me the infinite amounts of money throw into the american military doesn't afford for us to scramble some cobras off a carrier? I'd like to see what 16 Hellfires and 40mm cannon does to a mob

That's pathetic, I thought this was the America that can drop a 1,500 pound Jdam on any square inch of the planet in 5 minutes of notice

“I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully”

Godric wrote:I thought there is 2 companies of marines at every embassy.... How the **** does this happen?

Your telling me the infinite amounts of money throw into the american military doesn't afford for us to scramble some cobras off a carrier? I'd like to see what 16 Hellfires and 40mm cannon does to a mob

That's pathetic, I thought this was the America that can drop a 1,500 pound Jdam on any square inch of the planet in 5 minutes of notice

There are 150 Marine Security Guard embassy detachments around the world, totaling some 1,000 Marines. A Marine rifle company numbers about 200 hats or less. I think the largest Marine embassy guard was in Moscow, and they numbered about 25. So no, there are not "2 companies" of Marines at each embassy.

And there are 11 full-size aircraft carriers on active commission inthe U.S. Navy, plus a similar number of amphibious assault carriers. Currently, I think there are 4 or 5 CVNs (the big carriers) on deployment*, two of which are in U.S. waters. This is one area of the defense budget where I actually advocate a bigger commitment and - ye gods - actually seem to be on Mitt Romney's side: I think in the 21st century we still need a 500-600 ship Navy with a greater emphasis on naval air and special operations. But then I would think that, wouldn't I?

* One of the CVNs at sea right now is USS Enterprise, the very first nuclear powered aircraft carrier. When she returns to port, she will be retired from active service and decommissioned. She's been in the fleet since John F. Kennedy's first year in office, and in that time I think she's had her reactors refueled twice. Not sure how many steam miles that translates to, but dang.

Godric wrote:I thought there is 2 companies of marines at every embassy.... How the **** does this happen?

Your telling me the infinite amounts of money throw into the american military doesn't afford for us to scramble some cobras off a carrier? I'd like to see what 16 Hellfires and 40mm cannon does to a mob

That's pathetic, I thought this was the America that can drop a 1,500 pound Jdam on any square inch of the planet in 5 minutes of notice

There are 150 Marine Security Guard embassy detachments around the world, totaling some 1,000 Marines. A Marine rifle company numbers about 200 hats or less. I think the largest Marine embassy guard was in Moscow, and they numbered about 25. So no, there are not "2 companies" of Marines at each embassy.

And there are 11 full-size aircraft carriers on active commission inthe U.S. Navy, plus a similar number of amphibious assault carriers. Currently, I think there are 4 or 5 CVNs (the big carriers) on deployment*, two of which are in U.S. waters. This is one area of the defense budget where I actually advocate a bigger commitment and - ye gods - actually seem to be on Mitt Romney's side: I think in the 21st century we still need a 500-600 ship Navy with a greater emphasis on naval air and special operations. But then I would think that, wouldn't I?

* One of the CVNs at sea right now is USS Enterprise, the very first nuclear powered aircraft carrier. When she returns to port, she will be retired from active service and decommissioned. She's been in the fleet since John F. Kennedy's first year in office, and in that time I think she's had her reactors refueled twice. Not sure how many steam miles that translates to, but dang.

Thank you. Hm. Gives me things to think about

I just thought with all the **** happening in Northern Africa we'd have atleast an LHD by there.

I guess keeping ships at sea is expensive.... and I'm always b*tching about how big the Budget is....

Hundreds of protesters set alight a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday, witnesses said, chanting against the pope's visit to Lebanon and shouting anti-American slogans.

Locals watching the attack said some people were shouting, "We don't want the pope" and "No more insults (to Islam.)"

The incident came as Pope Benedict began a three-day visit to Lebanon and as anger over a film which Muslims have said is blasphemous to Islam spread across the region.

Hundreds of protesters set alight a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday, witnesses said, chanting against the pope's visit to Lebanon and shouting anti-American slogans.

Locals watching the attack said some people were shouting, "We don't want the pope" and "No more insults (to Islam.)"

The incident came as Pope Benedict began a three-day visit to Lebanon and as anger over a film which Muslims have said is blasphemous to Islam spread across the region.